Comments on: I miss you

I miss you

jennak — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:00:59 -0800

This thread made me think about members who no longer participate in MeFi. Which AWOL member do you miss the most?

By: modge

modge — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:07:44 -0800

aaron. holgate. now lileks.

speaking of which - where's clavdivs been?

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:18:55 -0800

I second aaron.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:20:54 -0800

I third aaron.

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:26:59 -0800

Holgate

By: walrus

walrus — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:27:58 -0800

I miss holgate too. And aaron (even though he riled me up).

By: thirteen

thirteen — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:41:57 -0800

Baylink, Grumblebee, John B., and would it kill Mars Saxman to post a little more often?

By: revbrian

revbrian — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:42:37 -0800

Definitely aaron.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:45:36 -0800

Holgate, absolutely. Got a soft spot for ljromanoff, too.

Yeah, where IS clavdivs??

By: thirteen

thirteen — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:48:27 -0800

Doublepostguy and the very handsome Twice_posted_lad

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:48:33 -0800

Holgate, clavdivs, aaron, Summer, solistrato, anapestic, grangousier, cCranium, UncleJoe, lia, hincandenza...I could go on but I got into a lot of trouble the last time I posted a missing persons list. So I'm emailing all of them personally over the coming weeks. ;)

By: thewittyname

thewittyname — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:00:13 -0800

clavdivs' last posted on Monday, so I don't think he qualifies as missing, although he is creeping up to that 48 hour missing person's legal threshold.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:01:38 -0800

solistrato == sjc. ummm, I hope I'm not blowing his cover or anything by saying so; really I'm just resentful that I only have the one username myself.

By: thirteen

thirteen — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:02:14 -0800

Does anyone else think the disppearance of Holgate and ljromanoff at the same time is slightly more than a coincidence?
~coughsamepersoncough~

By: thirteen

thirteen — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:03:17 -0800

One name is enough for you Ms. Blue!

Wow, I am monopolizing the thread!

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:04:35 -0800

Has anyone seen thirteen lately?

Oh. There you are.

By: Skot

Skot — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:04:54 -0800

Why does no one lament the absence of Zippity BOP?

Oh, wait, never mind.

By: jennak

jennak — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:06:00 -0800

I miss aaron and the baby jesus.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:06:15 -0800

#119...stop dating college girls...at the age of 34.
posted by clavdivs at 4:32 PM PST on January 28

Hmmm...

By: sudama

sudama — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:07:59 -0800

I miss m.polo.

By: sudama

sudama — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:08:28 -0800

I miss John B. too.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:20:55 -0800

I wonder if iceberg273 was being funny up there? 'Cause before I posted re: DoubleScottGuy, I did truly think "you know, where's thirteen been?" ---and there thirteen was.

All the people here these days, there's probably a lot of people I "miss" who just happen to be spending all their MeFi time in threads I don't read.

By: solistrato

solistrato — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:30:24 -0800

Michelle, you totally blew my cover. I hate you. We're breaking up. And give me back my 8-tracks!

Although it's nice to be missed. ;)

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:47:32 -0800

I wonder if iceberg273 was being funny up there?

I was!

*dons glasses with fake nose and moustache*

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:50:07 -0800

Does anyone else think the disppearance of Holgate and ljromanoff at the same time is slightly more than a coincidence?

Actually, that's a good reason why holgate left. He was trying to finish his PhD (now finished), and spending too much time shouting past ljromanoff. My guess is that once Holgate was gone, ljr ceased to have any interest in metafilter.

And no, they were not the same person.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:55:16 -0800

*ducking*

Hey, never mind clavdivs - I just noticed it's been days since Filmic Storyteller Guy last checked in! Anyone else pining for a little more detail on that job description of his?

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:56:16 -0800

... and then there's sjc, who stalks me like an obsessed groupie, hither and yon all over MetaFilter. But only because you can't successfully email someone with nothing but heavy breathing.

iceberg: I knew that. Yup.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:06:55 -0800

I miss ratbastard, Sapphireblue. Unleash him from your evil clutches, please.

By: jennak

jennak — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:10:14 -0800

LJR has been busy as well. Though we might fight and bicker on MeFi (hell -- I even dragged him into MeTa once), but we're actually good friends outside of MeFi.

But I agree w/ Matt that LJR's probably bored now that Holgate is concentrating on school. *ducks from LJR*

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:18:33 -0800

I miss Shadowkeeper.

Oh c'mon. If I was gone you'd miss me, right?

Seriously, I miss Aaron. And just wrote him to say so.

Who here likes pancakes?

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:20:06 -0800

me.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:25:53 -0800

Matt, you hurt me. I have no control over Mr. Bastard's surfing or posting habits. The best I can do is to give him Wounded Girlfriend Eyes when I catch him reading Fark. I'll step up those efforts on yr. behalf, tho.

By: elsar

elsar — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:28:38 -0800

ahhh. MeTaNostalgia. does this mean we're going to start voting republican?

i'm not sure who i miss, but i miss the lack of nostalgia...

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:52:14 -0800

Metafilter clearly has a love/hate relationship with Aaron. In my mind, he was epitomized by the statement, "He may be a jerk, but he's OUR jerk."

The collective IQ kinda dropped when Holgate left. Hope he returns.

And I kinda vote for thirteen to post more often (not just in this thread). Although the one sure way I know of making that happen is mentioning Roosevelt.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:55:55 -0800

Of all the things I've loved and lost, I miss my mind the most.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:56:03 -0800

I miss Aaron, and its weird because I was thinking about this very thing last night.

He was a conservative who wasn't didn't seem so intensely always right that he was annoying as so many current Mefi Conservs seem to be lately.

Plus, we were brothers in corpulance.

By: anapestic

anapestic — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:59:47 -0800

Aaron would never have misspelled "corpulence".

By: jennak

jennak — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:16:55 -0800

* The collective IQ kinda dropped when Holgate left. Hope he returns.
* Aaron would never have misspelled "corpulence".

I laughed aloud.

Ahh...you both are missed.

By: metrocake

metrocake — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:17:32 -0800

I miss cCranium and Uncle Joe, too.

:: sniff ::

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:38:50 -0800

I had a soft spot for Private Parts. The lil' rascal.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:56:57 -0800

And Avogadro.

And you, Scarecrow. I think I'll miss you most of all.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:08:17 -0800

A little birdie told me Private Parts may be in prison now, so you can probably understand why I don't miss him at all.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:12:45 -0800

Oh, I miss aaron too, I asked him to come back before (I did this with SDB too), but the last stint he had here, I don't know. I think he stopped being the well-spoken right wing guy I loved to read, and became a bit vitrolic.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:20:02 -0800

haven't seen Mars around much lately either.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:38:01 -0800

Holgate, aaron, avogadro, ljr, m.polo. I hope they're well.

By: Neale

Neale — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:52:34 -0800

Doublepostguy!

By: kitschbitch

kitschbitch — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:10:09 -0800

well, I met up with holgate IRL just a couple of weeks ago, and he was in fine spirits as we got together to celebrate the magnificent event that was him completing his D.Phil, and leaving Oxford for pastures new.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:39:07 -0800

mathowie - I dunno, I'd read blog enties from someone in prison.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:43:07 -0800

I think he stopped being the well-spoken right wing guy I loved to read, and became a bit vitrolic.

I guess that explains it. I was starting to think that all these folks were talking about some OTHER aaron and not the arrogant troll for whose absence I give daily thanks.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:48:03 -0800

holgate has been posting around on Plastic though...I think he just hates us.

By: daveadams

daveadams — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:50:27 -0800

I miss sudama.

rebeccablood

Mars Saxman

wendell

By: EngineBeak

EngineBeak — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:57:18 -0800

Ah, beat me to wendell -- oldtimer!

By: daveadams

daveadams — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:17:31 -0800

oldtimer!

Who you callin' old? ;)

By: anildash

anildash — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:15:51 -0800

I miss jkottke.

By: metrocake

metrocake — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:47:19 -0800

Anildash, you trolling or serious? :(

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:21:10 -0800

lj and holgate are on special assighnment...all i can say is...(mordor)...SSHHH. crazy uncle joe is missed. i think holgate left cause the spellchecker done broke:)

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:25:24 -0800

i missed lagado, dongresin, sapp blue(my favorite color and gem) the corn flower blue of a burmese,3k emerald cut...she does not post enough

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:35:35 -0800

I missed you too, clav.

But I have lots of bullets.

By: thirteen

thirteen — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:49:22 -0800

I would miss Anil if I did not see him in my dreams at night.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:01:21 -0800

Yet another vote for aaron, in the hopes that he reads this thread and his helps get him back. We didn't know how good we had it--what with all the poser O'Reilly righties trolling around.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:03:09 -0800

Agreed.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:14:22 -0800

I miss y2karl.

By: TimTypeZed

TimTypeZed — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:20:11 -0800

I remember post after post of bickering being interrupted by someone making sense, and knowing before I reached the name at the bottom that it was Zeldman posting. I used to think of him as the only adult on the Internet.

Not that his voice is now inaccessible, but I thought the regular sprinkling of posts by people noted for their success at www.somewhereelse - such as Zeldman, such as lileks, such as jkottke, such as honkzilla - is one of the features that made this place worth coming back to.

By: john

john — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:23:56 -0800

For me, coming back to start posting and responding on Metafilter is like trying to merge on to a four lane highway from your driveway. Though, I have to admit that my online time has decreased dramatically overall.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:58:12 -0800

What music should be playing in the back of this thread?

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:11:06 -0800

I miss the CNN guy who calls us MetaFiles.

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:12:55 -0800

Paris: I am thinking the standard VH1 Where Are They Now? theme is apt.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:21:54 -0800

John Waite's "Missing You".

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:29:38 -0800

Motorhead's Ace of Spades.

Just 'cause.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:32:52 -0800

Hey, Crow (jcterminal) ... Haven't seen much of you! Speaking of which, NEW JERSEY??!

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:35:36 -0800

I think it should be "You Light Up My Life"

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:43:38 -0800

Or maybe "Delta Dawn"

Just wanted to make sure at least ten people get that song stuck in their head.

Being evil is fun!

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:12:47 -0800

WTF are you lads up at this hour? I just finished a bill for my freelance law gig ("of counsel")...excuses, please?

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:20:41 -0800

Hey it's only 11:15 here!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:22:09 -0800

4:20 in the afternoon.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:23:13 -0800

Dammit. I just lost my temper on the next thread over at folks making like IRC in Metatalk, and now I'm doing it. Me = moron.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:47:02 -0800

oh dude, the perfect backup song is "Runaway"

As I walk along, I wonder what went wrong with our love, our love that was so strong?

I wonder. I wah-wah-wah-wonder. why. wah-wah-wah-why, she ran away.
And I wonder, where she will stay?
My little runaway, my run-run-run-runaway.

I was listening to it as I was reading this just now, and it was oh-so-fitting (the Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies version, if you must know)

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:11:40 -0800

They do "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" like no other bunch of heterosexual men ever could.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:15:48 -0800

Shamefully, since my comment on the twisted sister thread, I've had this monstrosity cycling `round in my sad little noggin.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:16:26 -0800

Please kill me, by the way.

By: lia

lia — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:02:09 -0800

I would miss Anil if I did not see him in my dreams at night.

He's visiting you too? Damn that sexy cheating Dash!

By: revbrian

revbrian — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:22:20 -0800

[...the Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies version, if you must know]

There is no other version imho.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 06:21:32 -0800

I had always assumed revbrian was a big Me First & the Gimme Gimmes fan. It just made sense.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 06:49:34 -0800

"Remember that one thread?"

"With the comic?"

"Yeah, that one."

"Yeah."

"Yeah......"

::pause::

"Matt must've had a fit."

"Yeah....."

"Those were the days."

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:03:38 -0800

I had always assumed revbrian was a big Me First & the Gimme Gimmes fan.

Most republicans are. [rimshot]

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:41:00 -0800

And I miss kaFKaesque.

By: metrocake

metrocake — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:44:21 -0800

Background music: Dan Hill's Sometimes When We Touch. (Added bonus: this page has a godawful MIDI version of an already godawful song!)

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:31:14 -0800

Eew, I actually met Dan Hill years ago. He was sort of miffed that I'd never heard of him at the time. Ah, the bliss of that ignorance...

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:34:09 -0800

"Remember that one thread?"

"With the comic?"

"Yeah, that one."

Which reminds me, who has the guts to post this on the front page? (Hint: not me.) Someone should, because these cartoons are so fresh and new. There's no way they were posted before.

Theme song for this thread: Glory Days.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:56:30 -0800

Shadowkeeper: elvissinatra has been kindly and quietly posting the new pages on this old thread. I think he deserves a medal.

Top of the World by the Carpenters!

By: witchstone

witchstone — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:29:09 -0800

definitely holgate. i felt smarter just reading his comments.

By: modge

modge — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:48:37 -0800

(i once worked with dan hill. please forgive me!)

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:08:36 -0800

I dreamed I saw Dan Hill last night
Alive as you or me
Says I to Dan "You're ten years dead."
"I never died" says he.

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:25:00 -0800

i felt smarter just reading his comments.

I dunno, he wasn't that dumb....

;)

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 01:49:39 -0800

Steven Den Beste

By: rich

rich — Mon, 04 Feb 2002 13:10:23 -0800

Where are Steven and Uncle Joe?

And matt.. you can't drop a prison comment and not elaborate.

And honk I've always appreciated.. but that was back when web discussion was the soup du jour here.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 02:19:26 -0800

MiguelC: Holgate, clavdivs... (other MeFi oldsters who don't come around anymore)... hincandenza

How odd that I'm in that list, MC. Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated; besides, as an eight-thousandaire, I hardly qualify as a poster of any significance. Me, I miss the hol-ster; he'd always have some lengthy treatise of a post, linking some book or article that I'd then go read and end up all the more book learned cuz of it. Him and the baby jesus...

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 04:38:24 -0800

I just saw a mirage in a thread...